The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics

by Dean Sluyter

Book Overview

HOW THE LITERATURE WE LOVE CONVEYS THE AWAKENING WE SEEK

Suppose we could read Hemingway as haiku . . . learn mindfulness from Virginia Woolf and liberation from Frederick Douglass . . . see Dickinson and Whitman as buddhas of poetry, and Huck Finn and Gatsby as seekers of the infinite . . . discover enlightenment teachings in Macbeth, The Catcher in the Rye, Moby-Dick, and The Bluest Eye.

Some of us were lucky enough...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608687694
• ISBN13: 9781608687695
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"